climate research

Alaska will become home to one of six federal climate science centers, a move that is expected to result in a greater emphasis on the state and the Arctic as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moves forward with plans to focus on the changing climate.

On Jan.16 — the last work day before the Bush Administration closed its doors — the U.S. Climate Science Program finally released five long-awaited government climate reports. Part of an interagency effort to integrate federal research on climate change, the reports began as presidential initiative started by President George H.W. Bush in 1989.